DevOps Engineer II
On-siteBismarck, North Dakota, United States
Job Summary
Build, automate, and maintain infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes for internal applications while prioritizing safety. Interface with development teams to meet operational needs by designing automation, tooling, and documentation that improve delivery reliability and speed. Provide production support for infrastructure and pipeline issues, including rotating on-call duties beyond normal hours. Review and document modifications to build and release processes, assisting senior staff in evaluating feasibility and cost-effectiveness. Develop deployment plans, test environments, and security measures throughout the software delivery life cycle. Keep abreast of emerging technologies to improve deployment efficiencies.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or a related field or equivalent experience
- Four years of Information Technology experience with proven record of increasing responsibility in systems administration, infrastructure automation, or software deployment
- Two years of experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code), with proficiency in current AI code generation ('vibe coding') workflows and the ability to review, refine, and validate AI-generated automation code and infrastructure-as-code
- Must take all measures necessary to protect networks, devices, programs and data from cyber-attack, damage or unauthorized access
- May be required to maintain a valid driver's license
- May be required to participate in an on-call rotation
- If the need for unescorted access to security sensitive business locations and/or systems (i.e. Electric EMS system), must submit to periodic background checks
Desired Qualifications
- Excellent written, interpersonal and verbal communication skills
- Broad knowledge of DevOps principles, practices, and procedures, including continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers
- Able to manage multiple priorities
- Experience in infrastructure automation and software delivery in a business environment
- Understanding of and ability to maintain confidentiality of all company information
- Highly proficient building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
- Proficient with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or Ansible
- Proficient scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Proficient with source control and artifact management tools such as Git, Azure Repos, JFrog Artifactory, or Sonatype Nexus
- Proficient integrating application security testing into CI/CD pipelines, including SAST tools (e.g., SonarQube, Checkmarx, Veracode) and DAST tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite)
- Highly proficient in one or more of the following: Azure, AWS, Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory/Entra ID, networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
- Proficient supporting Oracle or SQL databases, including backups and patching
- Proficient with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficient implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Azure Monitor, Grafana, Splunk)
- Proficient in incident response, root-cause analysis, and problem management
- Proficient in backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability practices
- Proficient in transforming business requirements into reliable, automated delivery processes
- Knowledge of security patching, vulnerability management, and secrets management tools (e.g., Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Tenable Nessus, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault)
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